90,000 Fans Witness Metal Giants Smash Attendance Record At First Live Show Of 2026 🤘 There are big gigs… There are legendary gigs… …and then there are the kinds of nights where an entire city feels like it’s vibrating from riffs alone. That’s exactly what happened in Athens this weekend as Metallica stormed back onto […]
Heavy metal fans… this is NOT a drill. Nicko McBrain — the legendary, endlessly lovable powerhouse behind the drums for Iron Maiden — has officially announced his brand new autobiography Hello Boys and Girls! and honestly, this might be one of the most exciting rock books in years, mun 🥁🔥 Described as “thrilling, hilarious and […]
Manchester’s rising dark visionaries deliver a debut album drenched in atmosphere, sorrow and spellbinding heaviness Some albums arrive with noise.Others arrive like ghosts. You don’t hear them charging towards you with fists in the air and pyrotechnics exploding behind them. Instead, they creep through the cracks in the walls at 2am while the rain batters […]
HUGE THANK YOU TO HENRY FROM The Karma Effect ! There are interviews… and then there are chats that remind you exactly why rock ‘n’ roll still matters in 2026. 🖤 The Riff Report Blog would like to give a MASSIVE thank you to Henry from The Karma Effect for taking the time to sit […]
Every now and then a band appears that feels less like a debut act and more like a warning shot fired straight into the modern rock scene. That band is NOVA RIOT. Hailing from Durant, Oklahoma, this rising alternative metal trio are stomping into heavy music with enough attitude, atmosphere, and cinematic chaos to make […]
The sands are shifting, the tombs are opening, and somewhere deep beneath the pyramids a blast beat has awakened the gods themselves… because Egyptian death metal destroyers SCARAB have officially unleashed their new EP Transmutation of Fate through Brutal Records 😈⚔️ And honestly, mun… this thing sounds like it was forged inside a cursed temple […]
Detroit’s own hard rock wrecking machine Artificial Agent are officially back, butt — and they’ve arrived swinging like a steel chair in a mosh pit. Their explosive sixth studio album Prismatic is set to land on May 9th 2026, bringing a full-scale sonic assault packed with crushing riffs, soaring melodies, emotional chaos, and enough energy […]
There are songs you casually stick on while making a cup of tea.There are songs you nod along to politely.And then there are songs like “The Grinding Void” by Australian metal bruisers Beleth, which arrive like a flaming meteor through your living room ceiling and immediately demand that every object within a five-mile radius start […]
Just when the rock world thought it had witnessed one of the biggest modern band break-up shocks in years, Greta Van Fleet have stormed back into the spotlight with a simple message that’s already got fans screaming louder than a front-row barricade at Download Festival. “We’re back, baby!” That’s it.That’s the post.And honestly mun, chaos […]
Russia’s brutal death metal destroyers are finally back after FIFTEEN YEARS… and mun, this thing sounds like it crawled straight out of a flaming pit beneath the earth. 🔥🤘 There are albums that hit hard… and then there are albums that feel like being repeatedly launched headfirst through a meat grinder while a demon screams […]
Australian extreme metal maniacs drag listeners into the abyss on their new nightmare-fuel release If you’ve been craving black metal that actually feels dangerous again, then grab your corpse paint, lock the doors, and maybe check under the bed before sleeping tonight, because Faustian have arrived with a horrifying new sermon from the underground. 😈🕯️ […]
There are albums you listen to… and then there are albums that completely consume you. French gothic doom veterans Angellore have returned from the shadows with Nocturnes, a record so drenched in sorrow, atmosphere, and haunting beauty that it feels less like an album and more like a cursed dream whispered through candlelight and rainstorms. […]
Alright butt… gather round the speakers and crank it LOUD — because Motionless In White have just unleashed the kind of news that sends shockwaves through the pit and straight into your spine 😈 A brand new album is on the way…AND they’ve teamed up with the one, the only, the voice of pure metal […]
⚡ ALISSA WHITE-GLUZ STEPS IN AS NEW FRONTWOMAN ⚡ Right, who spiked the Red Bull with rocket fuel then?! 😵💫🔥 Because this news has come in hotter than a Download Festival pit at peak chaos… DragonForce have officially announced Alissa White-Gluz as their new vocalist and frontwoman. Yeah, butt. THAT Alissa. The scream queen. The […]
Political punk metal chaos is about to rip through the country… and we are SO here for it, mun 🤘😈 Right then, butt… cancel your quiet nights in, tell your boss you’ve “got plans” (you absolutely do now), and get ready for some proper noise — because HAWXX have just unleashed the news: 👉 A […]
